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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's preferred interface for Windows Server is Windows Admin Center, but can it really replace Hyper-V Manager for managing virtual machines? Brien compares the two management tools.
01/20/2020
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Microsoft this week published additional help resources for organizations stuck on Windows Server 2008, which fell out of support on Jan. 14.
01/17/2020
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Microsoft on Thursday announced a corporatewide carbon reduction effort that aims to make the company "carbon negative" by 2030.
01/16/2020
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The two companies are joining forces to provide datacenter storage that can handle the increasing demands of modern networks.
01/14/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
For better or worse, the next 10 years will bring more intelligent devices to more areas of our daily lives. From the proliferation of AI to what that means for user privacy, here are Brien's tech predictions for 2020 and beyond.
01/02/2020
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In-Depth
Arguably one of Microsoft's biggest announcements this year was the introduction of Azure Arc at Ignite. But is this really a game-changer or is Microsoft just falling for the multicloud buzz?
12/23/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Though handy, Hyper-V guest clusters can extra complexity to your workloads that can cause problems with backups. Here are the four most common error messages and how to fix them.
12/16/2019
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Microsoft on Thursday announced a preview of remote authentications into Windows-based Azure virtual machines (VMs) using Azure AD credentials.
12/12/2019
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced a "limited preview" release of Microsoft Teams for certain Linux desktop operating systems.
12/11/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Brien answers two thought-provoking reader questions. First, do Hyper-V VMs have direct hardware access? And second, how is it possible to monitor VM resource consumption from the host operating system?
12/11/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The differences between these two Hyper-V versions are pretty significant, depending on what you plan to use them for. Here's a quick rundown of each platform, from their features to licensing quirks to intended use cases.
12/09/2019
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News
A comparison of SQL Server's throughput performance on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) gives the edge to Microsoft's cloud.
12/06/2019
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Microsoft on Thursday announced a preview of a new "Cloud Provisioning" feature for the Azure Active Directory Connect service that promises to bring together scattered Active Directory "forests."
12/05/2019
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Microsoft gave notice last week that it's going to drop Alternate Credentials support for authenticating users of its Azure DevOps Services.
12/03/2019
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Microsoft announced last week that it is starting to deliver Update 1910 for Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager users.
12/03/2019
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Amazon's industry-leading cloud business appears to be developing a new datacenter processor that's at least 20 percent faster than its predecessor.
12/02/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Brien walks you through one of Hyper-V's best features: its ability to copy a file directly from a host server to a virtual machine without leveraging the network stack.
11/25/2019
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Much of Azure's promise relates to dynamic flexibility, yet the design of Docker containers can cause lag when used in a truly serverless environment like Azure. That's the disconnect that Microsoft's new "Project Teleport" aims to address.
11/21/2019
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Microsoft announced on Wednesday that users of the Google identity and access service can use their personal log-in IDs with the Azure Active Directory B2B service to access resources as "guests."
11/20/2019
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced various developments concerning the use of Kubernetes, an open source container orchestration solution fostered by Google.
11/19/2019
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The next few years are going to be lively ones for the datacenter, according to research firm IDC's "Futurescape" report.
11/18/2019
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Salesforce.com and Microsoft on Thursday announced a strategic partnership on cloud technology use.
11/15/2019
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Of that number, 13 vulnerabilities are rated "Critical" to patch, while 62 vulnerabilities are deemed "Important."
11/12/2019
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Microsoft on Monday announced a bunch or Azure Active Directory enhancements as part of its Ignite event happenings.
11/05/2019
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Microsoft on Tuesday released more information about Azure Arc, the hybrid cloud and infrastructure toolkit it announced during the opening keynote of its Ignite 2019 conference in Orlando, Fla.
11/05/2019